Liberia, a very poor nation in West Africa, is relatively abundant in resources such as mahogany and rubber tree forests, iron-ore deposits, and diamonds. If Liberia is so rich in valuable resources, why is it still so impoverished? a) Liberia lacks the institutions necessary to make productive use of those resources. b) The population of Liberia is too small to use those resources. c) Natural resources are not as important as other types of resources. d) Taxes in Liberia are too high and discourage investment. e) Liberians are content with a low standard of living.

The total value of your portfolio is $10,000: $3,000 of it is invested in stock a and the remainder invested in stock b. stock a has a beta of 0.8; stock b has a beta of 1.2. the risk premium on the market portfolio is 8%; the risk-free rate is 2%. additional information on stocks a and b is provided below. return in each state state probability of state stock a stock b excellent 15% 15% 5% normal 50% 9% 7% poor 35% -15% 10% what are each stock’s expected return and the standard deviation? what are the expected return and the standard deviation of your portfolio? what is the beta of your portfolio? using capm, what is the expected return on the portfolio? given your answer above, would you buy, sell, or hold the portfolio?

When making broccoli cream soup, the broccoli and aromatics should be a. burned. b. simmered. c. puréed. d. sweated.

This problem has been solved! see the answerthe xyz corporation is interested in possible differences in days worked by salaried employees in three departments in the financial area. a survey of 23 randomly chosen employees reveals the data shown below. because of the casual sampling methodology in this survey, the sample sizes are unequal. research question: are the mean annual attendance rates the same for employees in these three departments? days worked last year by 23 employees department days worked budgets (5 workers) 278 260 265 245 258 payables (10 workers) 205 270 220 240 255 217 266 239 240 228 pricing (8 workers) 240 258 233 256 233 242 244 249 picture click here for the excel data filefill in the missing data. (round your p-value to 4 decimal places, mean values to 1 decimal place and other answers to 2group mean n std. dev variancesbudgets payables pricing total one factor anova source ss df ms f p-value treatment error total